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Show SOLDIER OF FORTUNE I SEEKS EXCITEMENT FORT BLISS. Tex. Aug. 10. Pat Kern late private in tho Eighth cavalry, caval-ry, is a soldier of fortune. The urge , Cor excitement drives htm ta whre. " fighting is in progress WhlIe gar-! nsoned here with his troop Kern bo-came bo-came an oxpert machine gunner. Ordered Or-dered to the Big Bend district of Texas, Tex-as, routine drills grew irksome so he and his '"bunkie" dcserted-went absent ab-sent they say in the army. Across tho Presidio was a Mexican federal garrison at Ojinaga being besieged be-sieged by Villa's forces- Kern and his comrade wero placed in charge of the two broken machlno guns. They dismantled dis-mantled these, reassembled them and made one good, working machine gun of the parts. With this they mowed down Villa's men until the federals evacuated tho town leaving the two Americans still manning the machine gun. They escaped, recrossed the border and surrendered to the commanding officer at Presidio. While serving a term in the prison stockade here on the charge of desertion, Kern escaped, went to Mexico, and was last seen going go-ing south on a freight train with Franco and the war his objective. |